Ultimately, we reached a consensus on the first, second,... sixth, and eighth prospects on the list. Although I predicted a few months ago that we might vary wildly in our staff rankings, the graduations of so many prospects—as mentioned by Mike yesterday, that list includes Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley, Jr., Tommy Layne, Christian Vazquez, Allen Webster, and Brandon Workman—made the top 20 or so pretty uniform across our rankings. The highest-ranked player who had a standard deviation of greater than three across our rankings was Teddy Stankieiwicz at number 20.

For the sake of comparison, here is the list that members of the SoxProspects Forum voted on recently.

1. Blake Swihart, C

2. Henry Owens, LHP

3. Manuel Margot, OF

4. Eduardo Rodriguez, LHP

5. Rafael Devers, 3B

6. Matt Barnes, RHP

7. Brian Johnson, LHP

8. Michael Chavis, SS/3B

9. Garin Cecchini, 3B/OF

10. Anthony Ranaudo, RHP

11. Trey Ball, LHP

T-12. Sean Coyle, 2B/3B

T-12. Deven Marrero, SS

14. Edwin Escobar, LHP

15. Michael Kopech, RHP

16. Wendell Rijo, 2B

17. Sam Travis, 1B

18. Teddy Stankiewicz, RHP

19. Carlos Asuaje, Util

20. Nick Longhi, OF/1B

21. Travis Shaw, 1B

22. Henry Ramos, OF

23. Steven Wright, RHP

24. Simon Mercedes, RHP

25. Luis Diaz, RHP

26. Bryce Brentz, OF

27. Javier Guerra, SS

T-28. Anderson Espinoza, RHP

T-28. Alex Hassan, OF/1B

T-30. Mauricio Dubon, SS

T-30. Heath Hembree, RHP

32. Justin Haley, RHP

33. Jake Cosart, RHP

34. Cody Kukuk, LHP

35. Christopher Acosta, RHP

36. Noe Ramirez, RHP

37. Jhonathan Diaz, LHP

38. Danny Mars, OF

T-39. Carson Blair, C

T-39. Jamie Callahan, RHP

T-39. Joe Gunkel, RHP

It looks like we're a bit higher than our posters on players like Javier Guerra (a player whose scouting reports may have been more impressive than his numbers) and Heath Hembree, while the SoxProspects community are bigger fans of Carlos Asuaje (probably the opposite of Guerra, a player with a lower ceiling who had an outstanding statistical season).

As always, thanks to all of our readers. We'll have a quiet week next week here on the SoxProspects News Page—unless there is, of course, NEWS—but in a week, get ready for our Top 40 Season in Review!

Photo Credit: Blake Swihart, Javier Guerra, Matt Barnes, and Carlos Asuaje by Kelly O'Connor. As always, we thank Kelly for letting us use her photos. Make sure you check out her website!